Ted Cruz

Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz (22 December 1970-) was a United States senator from Texas from 3 January 2013 alongside John Cornyn. In 2016, he ran for President of the USA, and he was the first Hispanic to win a presidential caucus after his 1 February 2016 performance in the Iowa caucus won him most of the US Republican Party's votes.

Biography
Rafael Edward Cruz was born on 22 December 1970 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to the Evangelical preacher Rafael Bienvenido Cruz and Eleanor Wilson. In 1974, the family moved to Houston, Texas, where Cruz was raised. In 1992 he graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in public policy and from Harvard Law School in 1995; in 1999 he became a domestic policy adviser for George W. Bush's presidential race. From 2003 to 2008 he was Solicitor General of Texas under Greg Abbott, and he won five out of nine cases he argued before the US Supreme Court. In 2013, after Kay Bailey Hutchison decided to not seek reelection as the Senator from Texas, Cruz succeeded in a campaign to become the new senator. In 2015, Cruz announced that he would run for President of the United States for the US Republican Party, and he was an initial ally of Donald Trump before falling out with him after insulting "New York values". Their alliance ended, and they became rival for the top spot in the Republican polls; on 1 February 2016 he won the Iowa caucus over Trump, the first Hispanic to win a caucus. He was known for his strong views on the USA's diplomacy, saying that he would rip up the nuclear deal with Iran if elected and would want saturated carpet bombing against the Islamic State.